Photographs of Lincoln

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The city of Lincoln is built at the point where there is a gap in the Lincoln Cliff. The river Witham flows through this gap. Lincoln is divided into two, uphill and downhill. The uphill area is the northern part of the city and includes the historic quarter where the Cathedral, Lincoln Castle and the Medieval Bishop's Palace are.
The Romans built a fortress here in the 1st century AD and the castle was built by the Normans in the 11th century on the same site. the first cathedral was completed in 1092; but destroyed by an earthquake in 1185. The rebuilt minster with a tall lead-encased wooden spire topping the central tower was the tallest building in Europe but the spire was blown down in a storm in 1549.
With seven monasteries in the town the prosperity declined after the Reformation. It developed an industrial centre in the 19th century and the first ever tanks were invented, designed and built in Lincoln by William Foster & Co. Ltd during the First World War.